Inside Johnson

Student consultants in Dubai

The first six individuals pictured, left to right, are government officials from Dubai, including Hussain Lootah, the director general of Dubai Municipality (sixth from the left). The others are MBA '08 (CQ) team members (left to right) Raed Almasri, Richard Seres, Lenin Briceno, Hadi Nasrallah, Matt Woloshyn, and Ken Dunham.

The Ottawa-Montreal team of the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program met with senior officials from Dubai Municipality in September 2007 during a field visit for their Global Business Project. "Our project is a consulting engagement with Dubai Municipality to provide advice on the future of their e-government initiative," says team member Richard Seres, MBA '08.